Music Gigs and Venues
Flow Festival Finland 2011
Finland is about to have a change of pace. Flow Festival, a well respected music and arts festival, is getting ready to take over Helsinki from the 12th to 14th of August 2011. Returning for its eighth year, Flow is known not only for its top name performers but also for its experimental music, groundbreaking installations, great food, drink and visual arts. [Read more…]
Gilbert & Sulivan Musical Gettysberg
The stage is set in Gettysburg for yet another invasion – a British musical invasion – and it’s coming this summer. The 2011 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Gettysburg will be the largest and most comprehensive event in North America celebrating the works of British lyricist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The Festival returns for a second year with an expanded program of the duo’s comedic operas, complemented by plays, recitals, and educational seminars. [Read more…]
If you enjoy classical music and watching a live performance by young, talented musicians, then you won’t want to miss Raven in Concert at Coverwood Lakes, Ewhurst, Surrey in aid of The Children’s Trust, Tadworth on the evening of Friday, 17th June, 2011. [Read more…]
Summer Music Festival Tips
Stay ahead of the festival pack this summer with these tips. Festivals abroad have become increasingly popular with music fans in recent years. Whether you are heading off to Sziget or planning a weekend of debauchery at Oxegen, here are a few helpful hints to make your festival fun memorable for all the right reasons. [Read more…]
It is said that, if a regular person’s mind goes at 40mph, the bipolar one hits 1000mph without having to press the pedal. Set in a series of unusual spaces around the UK, The Wonderful World Of… brings together a company of artists including projectionist Dave Lynch, designer Barney George and rock band That Fucking Tank, leading audiences on a promenade journey into this strange, beautiful, breakneck world. [Read more…]
aKING perform at Sowing the Seeds
Sowing the Seeds, the exciting teaser event to SA’s favourite music and lifestyle festival, Rocking the Daisies, gave music fans a taste of what to look forward to in October. The popular experience took place on Saturday, 16th of April, at the Cape Farmhouse in Scarborough. [Read more…]
Kaskade returns with his brand new studio album featuring the hot new single ‘Fire in your Shoes’
Kaskade Dynasty
Though he was born in Chicago, the DJ, A&R director, record store owner, and producer known as Kaskade found his spiritual and musical home in San Francisco by way of Salt Lake City and New York.
One of the hardest-working people in the San Francisco house scene, he’s Kaskade the house music producer/DJ by night; by day he’s Ryan Raddon, A&R director for OM Records. As an A&R man, he helped kick-start the careers of many artists, including Ming + FS and soul-house act Soulstice.
In the early days, Kaskade familiarized himself with the rapidly changing electronic music scene wherever he went, eventually finding that house music was the subgenre he loved best. He started out as a DJ in New York and Salt Lake City clubs. During the tail end of his stay in Salt Lake City, his first attempts to produce tracks were released on his own tiny label, Mechanized Records.
He also sold a few tracks to Chris Smith, A&R director for an up-and-coming house label in San Francisco. Though no one could have predicted it, this ended up being the precursor to Raddon’s most important career move. When family matters initiated a move to San Francisco, Smith hired Raddon to assist him at the label — which was, of course, OM.
His own full-length recordings as Kaskade began with 2003’s house-inflected It’s You, It’s Me. A soulful, more organic direction provided focus for the following year’s In the Moment, and Raddon kept his name in the record racks by piloting editions in the San Francisco Sessions DJ series (as well as the label mix House of OM). He proved surprisingly dedicated to his production craft, releasing Love Mysterious in 2006, which placed on Billboard’s electronic albums chart.
Strobelight Seduction became his biggest commercial success, following in 2008, and 2011’s Dynasty celebrated his new reputation with a parade of vocal features and a co-production with Tiësto. Later in 2010, Raddon put together Electric Daisy Carnival, a mix showcasing artists on the bill for the inaugural dance-music festival of the same name
After a much needed break and a refreshed energy to the continue the band, HOLLY & THE WOODS are back and ready to make the Grrl noise the fans have always loved them for!
Holly & The Woods
HOLLY & THE WOODS returns with three original members Craig Henning, Melissa Conradie & Gary Ashford, still on Rhythm guitar, lead vocals and bass respectively, and two brand new members. [Read more…]
New Rhythm Records Release – March 2011.
aKing
With The Red Blooded Years, aKING returns to the SA music scene with an album that is fresh and infused with new energy. The Red Blooded Years, recorded at Bellville Studios and produced by acclaimed music producer Theo Crous, is still unmistakably aKING, but the sonic influences of new member, Andrew Davenport, is impossible to ignore. [Read more…]
Stranglers Founder Returns To The Assembly For A Solo Show
Hugh Cornwell Returns
Hugh Cornwell, the original vocalist and guitarist of the Stranglers, hits the road for a series of UK concerts from April 6th. The man whose credentials include the Stranglers classics Golden Brown, No More Heroes, and Peaches, will not only perform his critically acclaimed solo album Guilty, but due to fan demand, he will also perform epic Stranglers songs never performed before as a solo artist, including The Raven, Schoolmaam and Toiler on the Sea. [Read more…]
